Cultural Behavior Quotes

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'

I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and he shows all the calm and consideration of a hooded swordsman delivering Islamic justice.

But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

It's our English mentality to worry about the weather.

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

We Indians react under pressure.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Unfortunately, it is part of Italian football and our culture to come to the stadium and whistle players for the choices they make.

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.

Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.